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« October 2003 | Main | December 2003 » November 30, 2003Walking Tours in the Bay Area
Want some exercise? In the Bay area? Check out Weekly Walker at http://www.weeklywalker.com/, a site the provides a number of interesting walks in the Bay area. You can browse the walks on the left side of the page, by location...
Water-Wise Plants for California Gardens
The California fires of 2003 have inspired a lot of Web resources, including a guide to water-saving, fire resistant plants. You can find it at http://bewaterwise.com/. Click straight to the Southern California Heritage Gardening Guide for a guide to over...
Continue reading "Water-Wise Plants for California Gardens" » November 28, 2003Helicopters in Film and Television
I have a friend who really likes helicopters. This link is for him. If you're looking for a site that tracks the appearance of helicopters in movies and television, you're looking for Rotary Action at http://www.rotaryaction.com/ . The front page...
Digital Library Project Publishes UC Books Online
The University of California has launched the eScholarship Editions collection, which represents about a third of the University of California Press books in print with an additional 300 out-of-print titles. Most of the books are available only from computers on...
Continue reading "Digital Library Project Publishes UC Books Online" » November 27, 2003FindArticles Updates
I don't use FindArticles very often, and when I dropped by the other day I thought it looked a little different. An Internet.com article ( http://c.moreover.com/click/here.pl?e104730209&e=6517 ) confirmed my suspicions; FindArticles ( http://www.findarticles.com ) has been updated. If you're not...
CPSC Launches New Site For Recalled Items
I know you want to get out there and shop, but before you do perhaps you want to visit this site. The US Consumer Product Safety Commission has launched a Web site for listing a variety of recalled consumer product...
Continue reading "CPSC Launches New Site For Recalled Items" » November 24, 2003Library of Congress Announces The Atlantic World
The LOC announced last week The Atlantic World: America and the Netherlands, which is now available at http://international.loc.gov/intldl/awkbhtml/awkbhome.html . This site, which is available in both English and Dutch, "explores the history of the Dutch presence in America and the...
Continue reading "Library of Congress Announces The Atlantic World" » MSN Experiments with a Newsbot
First Google News, now?...MSN is testing an experimental service in the UK. It's in beta, but you can try out MSN Newsbot for yourself at http://uk.newsbot.msn.com/ . Cosmetically it's not too different from Google News. On the front you'll see...
November 21, 2003GIGA for Quotes and Folks
If you're looking for over 50,000 quotes, biographical information on over 8,000 people, and a reading list of over 3,000 books, than you're looking for GIGA at http://www.giga-usa.com/ . There's a lot to see here but let's concentrate on the...
Cartoon Research
I confess, to me the words "cartoon" and "research" don't exactly go hand-in-hand. But after visiting the Cartoon Research Web site, I might have to change my mind. Cartoon Research ( http://www.cartoonresearch.com/ ) contains a variety of information of cartoons,...
November 20, 2003Bartleby Adds The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy
Bartleby.com has added "The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy," featuring over 6,900 entries, to its site at http://www.bartleby.com/59/ . You can search through the dictionary by category (from The Bible to Technology) or search by keyword. A search for "mercury"...
Continue reading "Bartleby Adds The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy" » Frank Lloyd Wright Web Links
I don't often cover Geocities.com resources, but in this case I'll gladly make an exception. All-Wright Site ( http://www.geocities.com/soho/1469/flw.html ) doesn't look as if it's been updated in a couple years, but there's enough essential information here to make it...
November 19, 2003ResearchBuzz: The Big Moved
ResearchBuzz started in 1998 as a companion to the 2nd edition of Official Netscape Guide to Internet Research. When I started it I had no idea it would still be going strong in 2003. I also had no idea that...
Oregon Launches License Database
The state of Oregon now has a site devoted to licensing information at http://www.oregon.gov/lic/ . It's not really for searching for licensing per se; it's more about getting pointers to other search sources and information on licensing bodies. The top...
Canadian Government Now Offering RSS Feeds
You GO, Canada. The government of Canada is now offering RSS feeds. (Apparently they've been offering them for a while, but a reader just clued me in.) The feeds are available at http://tinyurl.com/vrh7 . All the feeds I saw were...
Continue reading "Canadian Government Now Offering RSS Feeds" » Get an Early Start on the Elections with GoogleRace
It's not so much scientific as funny, but it is funny. The API application GoogleRace ( http://www.googlerace.com/ ) lets you enter a single search word or a two-word phrase and see where George Bush and the Democratic candidates stack up...
Continue reading "Get an Early Start on the Elections with GoogleRace" » November 18, 2003Status Report
We're up to over 1000 entries and all the missing pages have been added. I think. I'm sure you'll let me know if I'm wrong. :->...
Search for Play Groups around the US
If you've got a kidlet and you're looking for a playgroup, check out The Playgroup Finder, recently announced and located at http://www.mommyandme.com . Before you can search you'll have to register. The registration looks intimidating but most of the information...
Oddities Off the Interstate
Who needs the Grand Canyon or Kitty Hawk? A true road trip, you may opine, is not complete without a visit to the Giant Chair With Horse in Denver Colorado. In that case you need to visit Roadside America, at...
Utah Offers State Services Directory
The state of Utah has launched Utah Cares, a directory which allows you to find state services by need, group, or provider. It's available at http://utahcares.utah.gov/ereppub/en/ScreenReferralHomePage.do? . As I've already noted, there are several ways to get to the information...
November 17, 2003Status Reports
Most of the templates have been completed, but there are still several pages missing. I'll try to add in the missing pages over the next few days; the "official launch" will be Thursday. There are some goofy dates and I'm...
Make Your Own RSS Feed With Feedster
If you don't use a Web site software package that generates its own RSS, you may have despaired of creating your own RSS feeds (or you may have gritted your teeth and started doing them by hand, as I did...
U of Oregon Offers Data for Local Communities Site
The University of Oregon Libraries is now offering a "Data for Local Communities" Web site at http://libweb.uoregon.edu/dlc/ . The front page of the site is an interesting study in dropdown menus with several different levels of information available. The first...
Continue reading "U of Oregon Offers Data for Local Communities Site" » Google Announces Code Jam Winners
Google has announced the winners of the Code Jam 2003 contest. Jimmy Mardell from Stockholm, Sweden, won the $10,000 grand prize. He won out of a field of over 5,000 participants who began in the contest in October. Well done,...
November 16, 2003Welcome to the New ResearchBuzz.com!
Welcome to the new ResearchBuzz.com! We have moved to the new server, and I'm populating the site with entries as fast as I can. At the moment there are over 775 with more on the way. Stay tuned....
November 13, 2003BrainBoost Natural Language Engine
A few years ago, natural language search engines were all the rage. Bunches of sites on the Internet promised prompt answers to the question, "Why is the sky blue?" and other natural language search conudrums. The noise has died down...
ResourceShelf Starts Gathering Materials for 2004 Elections
Gary Price has announced his intention to collect reference materials and databases for the 2004 election. You can get his first set of links at http://digbig.com/3fek . Hey Gary: I know you're going to collect a LOT of these. How...
Continue reading "ResourceShelf Starts Gathering Materials for 2004 Elections" » Database of Academic Research on Child Care on the Way
The University of Michigan and Columbia University are teaming up to create a database. The database will be an online archive containing the latest academic research on child care. The Web site is expected to be available by early 2004....
Continue reading "Database of Academic Research on Child Care on the Way" » OneLook Announces Reverse Dictionary Service
OneLook has announced a new reverse-dictionary service at http://www.onelook.com/reverse-dictionary.shtml . Their reverse dictionary allows you to enter a word or group of words describing a concept and get results consisting of related words. I searched for the word "ennui" and...
Continue reading "OneLook Announces Reverse Dictionary Service" » November 12, 2003Yahoo Launches Pop-Up Blocker for their Toolbar
Yahoo! Companion has started offering a pop-up blocker that offers several different options for dealing with pop-ups. The Yahoo Toolbar is pretty straightforward, though its offerings are a little broader than most simply because Yahoo has more properties. But the...
Continue reading "Yahoo Launches Pop-Up Blocker for their Toolbar" » November 11, 2003Australian Search Engine
It's actually the Australian and New Zealand search engine, but WebSearch ( http://websearch.com.au/ ) starts you off searching for Australian search engines, so we'll start there (a link at the bottom of the page lets you switch your searching to...
MyFamily.com Announces Immigrant Collection
MyFamily.com announced on November 10th the US Immigration Collection, which will be available as a subscription through Ancestry.com. Their press release says it includes "passenger lists for all of America's major Atlantic ports including New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, New...
Continue reading "MyFamily.com Announces Immigrant Collection" » November 10, 2003Archive For Films Shot In Scotland
I admit it, when I think of films, "Scotland" does not immediately pop into my mind. But there's enough of Scotland's national film archive to create an entire site, which is available at http://data.scottishscreen.com/home/ . You can do a simple...
Winston Churchill Papers Finally Indexed
Waaaay back in 2000 I mentioned the project to index the papers of Winston Churchill. Guess what? There's an index online and it's available at . There are over 70,000 entries in this index, and they're available through a keyword...
Continue reading "Winston Churchill Papers Finally Indexed" » Northwest History Database Collects Clippings
The Northwest History Database, at http://content.wsulibs.wsu.edu/pncc/pncc.htm , does contain newspaper clippings. In fact the database contains over 19,000 newspaper clippings from the Pacific Northwest Newspaper Clippings Collection. But there's additional information here as well; specifically federal and state documents, laws,...
Continue reading "Northwest History Database Collects Clippings" » November 07, 2003Do Amazon Searches from Office 2003
Amazon's got a nice little add-on if you're using Office 2003, and you can check it out at http://www.amazon.com/gp/associates/research-pane/download_rp.html/002-9839257-4607237 . The add-on is called the Amazon Research Pane. It'll allow you to search for Amazon products from Word 2003 or...
Google Offers Google Deskbar
If the Google Toolbar isn't enough for you, now you can try the Google Deskbar. Like the Toolbar, it requires Internet Explorer, but unlike the Toolbar, it allows you to do Internet searching without opening your browser. The Deskbar can...
November 06, 2003Events Listings
Gary Price, he of the awesome ResourceShelf, has a list of upcoming event lists available at his Web log: http://tinyurl.com/prvn . Categories of events include news planning, government and politics, academic events, and science. Note that these are lists of...
November 05, 2003The Charles Cushman Photo Collection -- American Life 1938-1969
The Indiana University Archives and the Digital Library Program are now offering a site for the Charles W. Cushman Photograph Collection, which features 14,500 color images of life in America between 1938 and 1969. The site's at http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/collections/cushman/ . You...
Continue reading "The Charles Cushman Photo Collection -- American Life 1938-1969" » Google Offering Anita Borg Scholarship
If you're a female student in the computer sciences, check this out. Google is offering two $10,000 scholarships (one undergrad, one grad) for women who are majoring or are in first year master's for "computer science, computer engineering or related...
November 04, 2003Fun Tools at Toolbot
Okay, this is a little off the ResearchBuzz path, but I thought it was interesting. If you've ever done layout or design you've probably used loren ipsum -- that's the dummy text used to fill in layouts, etc. If you're...
Yahoo Adds Some Search Features to Its Front Page
Yahoo ( http://www.yahoo.com ) has added extended search functionality to its front page. Now from the front page you can use a pull-down menu to search images, yellow pages, and productions in addition to the general Web/directory search. Tip for...
Continue reading "Yahoo Adds Some Search Features to Its Front Page" » November 03, 2003Stored Data Doubles in Three Years
You might have seen this story making its way around the Internet last week. On one hand, it's kind of hard to believe but on the other hand, considering the growth of the Web, not difficult at all: according to...
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